Rhetoric

Lists of 3

The nouns, adjectives or verbs will be used in a list within a sentence.

Epithet

A word or phrase that describes a person or thing

Parenthesis

Brackets, dashes or commas are used to separate phrases from the main sentence

Asyndeton

Omitting conjunctions in a list

Expert Opinion/Quotations

The knowledge of an expert is referred to by the writer

Over-Exaggeration

The writer uses superlatives and adjectives to make a situation seem much worse/better than it really is

Antimetabole

A phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order

Polysyndeton

Using multiple conjunctions in a list

Irony/Sarcasm

Ideas are presented in a way that seems opposite to what is really meant

Metaphor and Simile

Types of imagery

Pun

A joking use of a word sounding the same as another

Synecdoche

A reference made to something by naming a part of the whole

Facts and Statistics

Information and data, that can be proved to be true

Audience Involvement/Direct Address

The writer involves the reader by relating the subject to their lives

Antithesis

A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with each other

Rhetorical Question

The writer will not expect you to answer this question

Personal Involvement/Anecdote

The writer incorporates aspects of their personal experience into text

Alliteration

Within a sentence, a series of words will begin with the same sound

Epistrophe

Repeating words at the clauses ends

Emotional Language

Language that is used to create a particular emotional response in the reader

Anaphora

Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses

Repetition

The technique of repeating the same word and phrase